IIT panel proposes 80 per cent hike in tuition fee : India, News - India TodayThe decks have been cleared for a substantive hike in tuition fee at the Indian Institutes of Technology. The 13 elite tech schools could increase their fee for undergraduate programmes by 80 per cent- Rs 50,000 per annum to Rs 90,000 per annum- from the next academic year if the IIT Council approves the standing committees recommendation finalised on Monday. Read More >>

Online-Education Provider Coursera Signs on 29 More Schools Online-education provider Coursera said 29 more schools have signed on to offer massive, open, online courses, dubbed MOOCs. The new partners include Northwestern University, IE Business School in Spain and National Taiwan University, and nearly double the stable of schools providing instruction on Coursera's platform, up to a total of 62 schools. Read More >>

Education Abroad at UK Offers Range of Scholarship Opportunities UK alumna Lauren Cook did it in Switzerland; UK junior Hannah Simms did it in China; they studied abroad. Widely seen as a life-changing experience, education abroad has been perceived as one with added financial burden. However, Education Abroad at UK is seeking to dispel the myth that money is necessarily an obstacle; rather, they want students to know money does not have to be a barrier. Read More >>

Education & Training Services Professional trainings like ITIL®(Foundation, Intermediate etc.) are becoming a ‘qualifier’ in job market as well as role elevations within the organizations. These professional trainings help to imbibe the knowledge, awareness and exposure to process based operations and governance. A service delivery resource with the required ITIL® certifications is bound to scale great highs in the IT operations career.
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Business Line : Industry & Economy / Info-tech : Official requests up for Web data: Google Google said today the number of Government requests to hand over data from users or to take down Web content rose in the first six months of 2012, extending a trend of recent years.
“This is the sixth time we’ve released this data, and one trend has become clear, Government surveillance is on the rise,” Google Senior Policy Analyst Dorothy Chou said.
In the first half of 2012, Google received 20,938 requests for data from Government entities around the world related to 34,614 accounts, according to the US tech giant’s semi-annual Transparency Report. Read More >>

Study: Research shows everyone does worse with online learning Recent research published by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) found that, compared to traditional classes, students tended to perform worse academically in online classes — suggesting that students had “difficulty adapting” to online learning. Perhaps even more startling, students of color and men fared the worst.
“Specifically, we found that males, Black students, and students with lower levels of academic Read More >>